riisinaakka:

“A meeting with Death”, Inktober day 17.

The promt was “battle” but I wasn’t really thinking about it when painting this. At first it was just the thought of the contrast between the two figures (size difference and light shirt vs engulfing darkness). Then randomly wiping the wet ink for some dynamic moves. It started to look like a scythe and after a while, a back of a skull, so I continued it that way. The paper was really warped when I took the picture and then made a few fixes in photoshop (2nd pic). I also tested some filters for a more dramatic feeling (1st pic).

“Battle” actually fits this mood quite well in the end, though. More Black Sails doodles here (x).
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candlewinds:

When the king brands us pirates, he doesn’t mean to make us adversaries. He doesn’t mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters. When I say there’s a war coming, I don’t mean with the Scarborough, I don’t mean with King George or England. Civilization is coming. And it means to exterminate us.